Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?

Evil is appealing, evil is attractive, evil is stylish. However, evil is still evil and it deserves to be treated just like that.

The goal of a life purpose is not what you will create, but what it will make you into for creating it.

I remember the period in the 1980s where the Beatles were terminally uncool, and it seemed to me then like they were just my little secret, and the rest of the world didn't know anything about them.

There is no doubt in my mind that this is the greatest problem confronting mankind at this time and that it has reached the level of a state of emergency.

Really in all my years on Tour, in the U.S. Open I probably played great golf in two of them, out of maybe 20, so it's a lot of work.

A student of mine is an actor, he used to go into these interviews and sometimes not get the part. He was "taken out". Someone would use power in a way that would cause him not to succeed

The boss says 'I'; the leader, 'we'.

Try to maintain the perspective that, in time, everything disintegrates and returns to its initial form.

I often daydream about the future, thinking of the world in 100, 200 years, imagining what it looks like, feels like. I hope that my books are like ghosts that will inhabit this future.

If I can wheedle A knife or a needle, Why not a Silver Churn?